This Karuna Rasa Kavita, मुकाम, is the first post on my website tagged to this theme. As I delve deeper into the world of poetry, I now feel more confident about tagging my work to specific and clear themes.
Navras
Overall, as you might know, Rasa’s represent the nine emotions (Navras) described in Natya Shastra. Altogether, these rasas represent a multitude of emotions ranging from love, anger, hate, friendship, disgust, sadness, peace, fear, wonder etc. Similarly, Karuna Rasa is one among those and is associated with sadness or melancholy. Some posts on other Navras elements are below for reference.
Check out Veer Rasa poetry here and Shringara Rasa poetry here
This poetry below captures the reflections of someone who has seen it all and looks back at the events of their life with a touch of sadness or incompleteness. It’s hard to accept that most of us go express this emotion at various times, sometimes for a large period of time.
Karuna Rasa is a contrasting emotion which accentuates the value of happy moments in our lives and the only wise option is to embrace it while stopping our futile attempts to escape this emotion.
This one is for all us, more so for those among us who feel lonely and don’t have their loved ones around to share their emotions. Hope you enjoy reading this!
Here it goes, Karuna Rasa Kavita: मुकाम
जो मुकाम पाने के लिए बेसब्र था मैं
मिल गए हैं मगर खली पड़े मकानों जैसे लगते हैं
कई साल बचे हैं ज़िंदगी की चिंगारी बुझने में
जाने क्यूँ बेवजह जीने के बहानों जैसे लगते हैं
बहाए तेरी बेवफाई के गम में जो आँसू
अब खोटे सिक्कों के ख़ज़ानों जैसे लगते हैं
पीछे छूट गए रिश्ते और दोस्त कई जो
ज़रूरतें पूरी करने आए इंसानों जैसे लगते हैं
खुद से किए थे जो वादे पूरे करने के वादे
वो इरादे अब अधूरे लिखे गानों जैसे लगते हैं
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